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Fri, 22 Feb 2019 07:44:24 -0500Squarpalpressoomlawixlyen-gbBuild Grow and Enjoy Radio interviews Removing Chainshttps://www.removingchains.org/item/6-build-grow-and-enjoy-radio-interviewing-removing-chains
https://www.removingchains.org/item/6-build-grow-and-enjoy-radio-interviewing-removing-chainsBGE Radio and Television interviewed Blair Corbett, founder of Ark of Hope For Children and Removing Chains Survivor Support Site. @BGE_Radio President Colethea Jenkins truly did her homework about us and helped draw out the important aspects of what we do to provide hope for survivors of child abuse and human trafficking. Thank you for making me feel right at home Colethea. Ark of Hope thanks Ja’Mille Wilborn for arranging this interview. Ja’mille, Program Director for BGE Radio and founder of Soulcial Media Evolutions, came to know about our work through our causes and many social network connections. Listen in below!

]]>me2@youtoo.com (Lou Corbett)eventsTue, 10 Dec 2013 20:50:18 -0500Stomp Out Darkness 2013https://www.removingchains.org/item/4-stomp-out-darkness-2013
https://www.removingchains.org/item/4-stomp-out-darkness-2013Once rescued from the horrors of child trafficking or child abuse, physical relief can be found. But the emotional torture and enslavement does stop with intervention. On Giving Tuesday 2013, and every other day of the year your giving and volunteerism can now have an enormous impact on those rescued from human trafficking, child abuse and bullying. Across the U.S. and around the world tens of thousands suffer in silence with the after effects of severe child abuse, child trafficking, religious and institutional abuse, bullying and other forms of victimization. These effects can last a lifetime including extreme fears, night terrors, flashbacks, PTSD and a host of emotional disorders. Thousands have no idea where to turn or who to trust, lacking support of any kind.

Together we now can help them out of the shadows and break their silence from the safety of their own homes! For those victimized, young and old, Ark of Hope for Children has built an innovative, safe and anonymous new text chat website called Removing Chains. Through our 10+ live chat rooms on RemovingChains.org survivors can find support in group or private chat.

Click to view Removing Chains powerful intro video

With over 1,000 site members and many more through all of the social networks survivors of all kinds are finding Removing Chains support site. Removing Chains provides survivors with support, encouragement and direction through dozens of volunteer Listeners, Mentors and Coaches; a developing case management system; and a growing library of support materials; and a developing link system to connect them to help in their area anywhere in the world.

Your support will help Removing Chains live chat survivor support hit the high marks we have set for ourselves in helping survivors out of the darkness and into lifelong Hope! We have partnered with Giving Tuesday 2013 AND the Crowdrise.com Holiday Challenge 2013 to accomplish our goals.

Why Crowdrise and not one of the other crowdfunding sources? Crowdrise funds get to Ark of Hope much sooner allowing us to move forward faster than soe other crowdfunding platforms. Crowdrise offers great prizes for you and incredible bonuses for Ark of Hope for Children as we hit certain benchmarks. We will share those Crowdrise prizes in blog posts and social network blasts as they become available! Huffington Post and CraigConnects have partered to make this the best Crowdrise Holiday Challenge ever! Thanks to them all right now, any time you give at least $10 to our Stomp Out The Darkness Challenge, you'll be entered to go to the Anchorman: The Legend Continues premiere. For real! So donate to change lives to the right, then tell everyone you know!

Consider these successes even in the early beta stages of Removing Chains;

A woman finds strength to maintain her job even in the face of regular flashbacks from trauma suffered years ago at the hands of multiple abusers. WE helped her get therapy which provides the keys to healing while Removing Chains provides a daily support group.

Children from the US, Canada, and Europe find solace and an oasis through their support network on Removing Chains after school from continuous and heartless bullying. They escape to safety and support from their peers and understanding adult survivors through Removing Chains.

A brutalized young woman from another country finds daily hope from her hospital bed. Through countless surgeries and months hospitalized she finds a reason to carry on due to connections through our unique system.

A young lady entering college in the US finds more than support once her boyfriend becomes obsessively abusive. Local connections assist us in convincing him to discontinue his abuse before legal problems ruin his life. She is now free and at peace.

An adult woman from the UK seeks and finds support through the faceless anonymity we provide after her rape. Struggling to maintain in front of peers through her work and personal life, she finds a place to “be real” through Removing Chains. We help connect her with local support.

A teen aging out of foster care with untreated PTSD and years behind in school worries how he will get a job and survive on his own. Through the support of Removing Chains he is finding hope, strength and support.

A homeless young lady from New Zealand finds strength and a safety net of support after choosing she can’t return home to her abuser. Removing Chains helps her with daily encouragement and links to local support.

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These are only the tip of the iceberg of what can happen and Ark of Hope for Children needs your help to continue. We have exhausted our current funds to bring this site to where it is, but it has so far to go to be everything it can be. We now have something very tangible for individual and corporations to invest their financial support in.

Your support will;

Keep our site online (Hosting our sites with so much happening on them is becoming increasingly expensive)

Build out of our UnChained Program to begin providing survivor support within community groups in interested cities throughout the US and in interested countries around the world. (Our first of these has begun in the UK and Florida)

Our funds are tapped out but our passion is on fire. We need you on the front lines and we need your support to continue our proven services. On Giving Tuesday 2013, throughout the giving season and throughout the upcoming year please leave a legacy by helping Ark of Hope for Children and Removing Chains continue and even expand through the great results these programs can provide!

Join one of the teams below or make a team of your own and let's Stomp Out the Darkness together!

]]>me2@youtoo.com (Lou Corbett)eventsMon, 25 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0500Demand a Reporting Function for Child Sexual Abuse Content on Facebookhttps://www.removingchains.org/item/3-demand-a-reporting-function-for-child-sexual-abuse-content-on-facebook
https://www.removingchains.org/item/3-demand-a-reporting-function-for-child-sexual-abuse-content-on-facebookArk of Hope for Children and our Removing Chains survivors support network join in association with #OpScarecrow for the advancement of the following work to protect all innocent and vulnerable children on Facebook: Facebook is rampant with child sexual abuse content, child exploitation material, online child predators, harassment, stalking and cyber-bullying of minors and various other forms of predatory activities targeting minors.

Facebook provides several options for reporting offensive or harassing content, including spam, scams, graphic violence, hate speech, nudity, etc. Yet there is no recourse for someone wanting to report explicit child sexual abuse content or pedophiles and other kinds of sexual predators.

During mid-March 2013 a video of severe and horrific child sexual abuse of a toddler girl went viral on Facebook, garnering more than 30,000 shares over a period of hours before it was finally deleted by Facebook following massive reporting.

A dedicated report button as we call for, would be responded to immediately by Facebook staff who will review the content according to our suggested tiered structure and if deemed to be explicit child porn, deactivate or unpublish the profile or page immediately and hold for law enforcement.

Less severe forms of child exploitation material will be dealt with also in summary fashion and removed from Facebook permanently.

There should be NO delay between the very first report of such content and the time it takes for Facebook to act decisively to remove the content and user from public viewing, and preventing further sharing, downloading or continuing of abuse.

Furthermore, in cases of explicit child sexual abuse material or child exploitation content, a SINGLE report should immediately flag a page or profile for deactivation while being investigated.

The time has come for Facebook to live up to its goals of being a social network for the people.And those people include the minors over age of 13 that are also users of the network.

Lastly, Facebook has to acknowledge the rampant distribution and dissemination of child sexual abuse content hosted on it's servers.

It's called child porn and Facebook does not acknowledge they have a problem hosting and containing it. Now is the time!

Join Us: Deadline for this petition is endlessuntil such time as Facebook has put these actions in place and promotes their existence and/or allows organizations like ours to promote the ease of access to these reporting functions.

]]>me2@youtoo.com (Blair Corbett)eventsSat, 04 May 2013 12:48:33 -0400World Online Vigils for Healing Humanityhttps://www.removingchains.org/item/1-world-online-vigils-for-healing-humanity
https://www.removingchains.org/item/1-world-online-vigils-for-healing-humanityPast Online Vigils Make Way for the Future Project for Healing Humanity and founder Fernanda Mejia Varnamkhasti began online vigils to promote unity and healing for victims of abuse and their families in early 2012. In cooperation with technical and leadership help from Blair Corbett and Ark of Hope for Children, PfHH hosted all of the following original live vigils using Google+ Live Hangouts. PfHH has handed off future vigils for survivors of abuse to Ark of Hope for Children due to our passionate service to and for survivors of abuse through RemovingChains.org and our UnChained Project.

Ark of Hope for Children will continue the work begun by the vigils as part of our global UnChained Project. Plans are in the works for live and online vigils as well as interviews and more.

View the original World Online Vigil videos on our YouTube playlist below or access them individually by clicking the links within each vigil description area.

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World Vigil for Trafficking Victims, QnA

January 10, 2013 - Click this link to view this vigil video Due to the heavy response from the first trafficking vigil we created this follow up Question and Answer vigil. Questions were posed prior to this live vigil.